Author Archives: Onur Güzel

We have recently bought a VPS for İTÜ24, the online newsletter of Istanbul Technical University. The server is running on Ubuntu Server 12.04 operating system. Due to limited memory resources and performance concerns, we preferred to setup nginx as web server. Our server will serve several web pages and applications developed in various programming languages, […]

If you are using e-book readers, changing meta information in PDF files might be useful. The PDF Toolkit has powerful capabilities that includes updating PDF metadata. Even though pdftk is a command line application and does not have editing feature, updating is a really simple process. All you have to do is, extract current metadata […]

If you cannot remember your password on a Linux operating system, you can simply reset it within minutes. Here is how to do: The only thing you need is a bootable Linux Live CD or USB thumb drive. You will also need “sudo” command to achieve this, make sure you have root privileges on your […]

Hi, I’ve started working on Pardus linux distribution as an intern last week. This post is the summary of the first week at the office… I’ve been supporting Pardus for almost 6 years and being volunteer at the events occasionally. I’ve met most of the developers during these events. However, I had a great opportunity […]

My roommate has an old computer that belongs to one of his relatives: Compaq Armada 110. It’s operating system was, Windows ME and since he is going to return it after few months we are not supposed to change it. However, he is in love with Linux, and it is really hard to find proper […]

Today, I encountered a problem: making div element a hyperlink. For example: It works, but SHOULD NOT be used. Because it is against the web law: W3C (X)HTML specifications! A very basic (and valid) solution: However my case was a little bit more difficult: We already know that is not a valid layout. Because a […]